Guest animation A few weeks ago, we featured “Two's A Crowd,” the first Warner Bros cartoon featuring Claude the cat. This toon, “Terrier Stricken” was released nine years later, in 1952. You can see the evolution: Claude no longer simply wants to be left alone by the puppy; he wants to stir up trouble. And the structure of the storyline is like the Road Runner cartoons, also directed by Chuck Jones: It's one joke, repeated with unlimited variations, but always with the same outcome. In “Two's A Crowd,” I noted all the songs from the Warner Bros musical catalog that musical director Carl Stalling borrowed from for punning effect; this time notice how he can score original music to perfectly match the action on screen.

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